More than 1,500 cancer patients across South Yorkshire every year are helping researchers from the University of Sheffield move a step closer to tackling cancer and its devastating effects by taking part in clinical trials.

A new £2 million laboratory opens at the University of Sheffield today (7 October 2016) providing Northern Powerhouse scientists with the ability to analyse the structure of nanomaterials in unprecedented detail.

The University of Sheffield, along with six other northern universities, will provide future social science postgraduate students with the highest quality doctoral research training thanks to a £16.8 million investment from Research Councils UK.

Scientists from the Universities of Sheffield, York and Copenhagen have identified fossil proteins in a 3.8 million year-old ostrich eggshell, suggesting that proteins could provide valuable new insights into the evolutionary tree, much further back in time than was previously thought.

Active monitoring of prostate cancer is as effective as surgery and radiotherapy in terms of survival at 10 years, reports the largest study of its kind, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).